Bombastic

Bombastic – Word of the Day

Tuba Mansoor
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/ˌbämˈbastik/

Meaning

  • high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.
  • an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex, different creed and color

Sample Sentences

  • The Democrats have not been nearly as bombastic in their opposition to Donald Trump as Republicans were when President Obama was president of the United States.
  • Nicolas Sarkozy has broken his studied silence in a bombastic op-ed.
  • And most live music is bombastic, because that’s the only way to make money in 2014.

Related words

pompous, blustering, ranting, blathering; verbose, wordy, turgid, periphrastic, euphuistic, orotund, pleonastic, high-flown, high-sounding, highfalutin, lofty, overwrought, convoluted;pretentious, affected, ostentatious, grandiloquent, magniloquent, fustian

Further reading

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bombastic#examples

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/bombastic

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